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Watch the Octogenarians Debate, and Throw Another Grandchild On the Fire?!
The right response to current events is that we won’t listen to old fools, and we won’t allow either of them to cook the Earth.
We won’t save the Earth from its fast-approaching destruction by holding a big rally or march. We must defeat Trump and the GOP, who seek to complete their final solution and doom everyone with “drill, drill, drill.” But by itself, this will be too little, too late.
Today, right now, it’s already dangerously late. Oh, and yes, vote for all Democrats as a stopgap. But that won’t be enough.
The oil and coal and natural gas that we burn are like Nazi ovens consuming our grandchildren. The old guys are ordering the burning for their sponsors. We are operating the ovens for them.
They are telling us to kill our grandchildren, along with theirs. They are insane. We have been obeying them, doing their dirty work. We must come to our senses and stop.
We are mining their coal, fracking and refining their oil. We do everything for them. They do nothing. Without our active cooperation and support, the fools who are ordering the destruction — they’d be powerless.
We could stop the abuse of the biosphere and the climate. We could begin repairs. We could care for ourselves and our…
